Luigi Mangione calls the death penalty unconstitutional in a court filing critical of Pam Bondi
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I think Luigi needs to do more speaking out. He needs to run for office once he's acquitted.
If there's any sign of that happening, they'll definitely kill him
He has already shown he would die for our rights. If he would be good with it i would still vote for him.
He should run for president then immediately claim immunity based on the courts trump rulings.
Is there a law against running for office while imprisoned?
Nope
Ferb, I know what we're going to do today
Why would he be acquited?
Edit: when a question gets downvoted you just might be too emotionally fragile to be online
I downvoted you just for your petulant little edit.
Same
Well I upvoted them just to balance the score out and give paying spectators value for money
He's innocent
This is always a wild one to me, he did it and hes a hero for it, stop erasing his badass act. It’s such a fringe conspiracy that not even Luigi has endorsed it
Allegedly..he hasn't admitted to anything afaik.. and as far as I've seen the evidence is flimsy ..why would he escape and then hang out in a fast food restaurant with the disposable murder weapon?
This community is super fascist about dissent
If a jury of his peers do not choose to convict.
I up voted because who the fuck would assume any practical result where USA is concerned.
It's naive to think that Luigi has any future in a fascist country.
Only downvoted for your edit.
Projection, my friend.
To answer your question in a non facetious way, there's a phenomenon called the csi effect. Essentially, juries expect csi levels of ironclad proof that tends to make it much harder than expected to convict.
Combined with the high profile and over politicisation and publication of the case, i see it damn near impossible fornthem to find 12 jurists who will unanimously find not only enough evidence, but not have a refuser based on sociopolitical contexts- much like how OJ walked on the LAPD's corruption.
At the state level yes. This is for the federal charges.
I love how a ceo dies and its federal charges, but a podcaster dies in front of people and even though he's getting way more support as of yet its not federal
The feds haven’t found a way to blame trans people for that one yet.
he was getting too much support from the right wingers too, so MSM did thier best to not report about luigi.
Missing something here. How are the feds prosecuting for murder when murder has always been a state charge? In any case, is this not double jeopardy?
I think because he fled across state lines. It seems like a stretch to me, but I am not a lawyer.
That is a stretch.
Not that much of a stretch. Since a state may refuse to arrest someone who committed a crime in a different state if they are sympathetic to said crime (especially a concern when USA was split between slavery and anti-slavery states), the feds can have jurisdiction in these cases, since otherwise it may involve a dispute between states. It makes at least some sense...
If you want to see a real stretch (aka completely made up bullshit), look up how feds justify growing marihuana for your own consumption (not sale) somehow involves interstate commerce.
Double jeopardy does not apply to facing federal and state charges under the dual sovereign doctrine. It does not really make sense, but that's the law.
It is banned in most countries. Poor man had to be in America.
Would he have had casus belli in a civilized nation?
Certainly not.
Just like Walter White would have had no reason to sell drugs because he would have gotten his cancer treatment for free.
America really is just that country.
I look forward to the day we hopefully get to where that show just confuses younger generations because no civilized society would have allowed those circumstances to exist in the first place
Has nobody told him the constitution doesn't matter anymore?
Why's he doing the zoolander face though?